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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1946
Page
5
A crowded directory lists assemblies across the city with locations, pastors, and weekly service times including Sunday schools, morning and evening worship, and midweek sessions. It names churches such as Southside First Assembly of God, Eastside Government Hill Tabernacle, and various Baptists, Christ Church variants, and a Salvation Army branch with addresses and contact details.
Brother Billy Guild, minister of the Little Church at 306 East Main Street, returns from Vancouver British Columbia where he assisted in a revival. He will preach Saturday and Sunday, with a Jubilee service at 7 45 p m Saturday night and Sunday services at 1 4 p m and 7 45 p m. All are urged to attend the meetings and hear his inspiring story.
Rev. D. P. Peavyhouse of Beaumont, Texas leads a revival starting Monday at 7 30 p m at Lighthouse Gospel Chapel 105 Sadie Street. Rev. Robert E. Parton, pastor, said the services will continue for an unspecified period.
Church notices list Morning service times and pastors for Congregational Emmanuel Pentecostal and Bible College affiliations. Various Episcopal parishes in Alamo Heights Highland Park and near downtown show morning prayers Holy Communion and sermons. Community notices include parish house events, a potluck, and a friendly gathering with short programming.
The Grove Avenue Church at Christ, 149 Grove Avenue, will open a nursery school around September 16 for children aged 3 to 6. The program covers manners, cleanliness, citizenship, art, music, Bible stories, and supervised play, with character development the focus. Superintendent Orland W. Bury notes a brighter tomorrow through proper training of today’s children. Two teachers, Ruth Williams and Ida Mellturft, have been chosen. more staff will follow. A school doctor, nurse, and dentist are included, with health safeguards in place. Ten students per class will be admitted with two teachers, and a new well-equipped kitchen and playground facilities are provided. The church also plans to open a fully accredited grade school within the next ten years.
Pastor Shirkey returns from Grand Rapids to Travis Park Methodist Church to deliver a 10:50 morning sermon Make Way for Peace and an 8:00 evening sermon Guard Your Friendships both reflecting on Christ's crusade. Church night follows with open houses for youth in the educational building and service center. Official board and committee meetings are scheduled Friday evening under Porter Loring.
The morning service centers on Substance as the lesson topic for Sunday September 25 in Churches of Christ, Scientist. The golden text proclaims wisdom and knowledge as stability and salvation. Scriptural citations include Psalm 36:8 and Isaiah 3:6, with a passage from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy stating that spiritual and eternal things are substantial while material things are insubstantial.
Salvation Army announces special services at Fifth and Elm streets featuring a farewell sermon by Lt. Retty Williams at 8 p.m. Sunday with the subject The Brazen Serpent. Maj. R. McNelland will preach Sunday at 11 a.m. on the Man Who Has Ceased From Sin. All welcome to attend a simple service where attendees may feel at home.
Large crowds attend services at West Avenue Church of Christ as Rev. Fred Reedy, district superintendent of the Texas Mexican Church of the Nazarene and former pastor in Jacksonville, Fla., remains for special services through September 22. Attendance urged.
Walter W. McAllister of San Antonio heads the San Antonio Building and Loan Association and has been nominated as league president by the Unite States Savings and Loan League. The nomination awaits a convention vote in Milwaukee on November 20, with reports from Chicago confirming the announcement.
Grace Lutheran Church on Avenue B at Fifth Street hosts Rally Day activities led by Rev. John A. Scherzer B D on Sunday September 15. Morning worship emphasizes active participation in moral rebuilding. Special children services and baptism, a children's choir, and a 6 pm parish house program titled Getting Acquainted with social hour follow for visitors.
Rev W A Sietwes pastor of Highland Park Evangelical Lutheran Church presents the week program from Monday the 16th. Activities include Sunday school teachers study and consecration hour at 7 30 pm Sunday school board of management at 8 pm. confirmation school for upper class at 4 45 pm Tuesday. Women of the Church at 1 30 pm and senior choir at 3 pm Wednesday. Lutheran Brotherhood at Comanche park and family night at 7 pm Thursday. confirmation school upper class at 4 45 pm Friday. first year confirmation class meets at 3 am Saturday.
St Luke's Women of the Church elected officers for the coming year: Val J. Reeseling president, W C Seewald vice president, A M Bennetten secretary, Harry T Fitts treasurer, James W Persking statistician. Executive committee to meet Wednesday September 11 at 8 p.m. at 1418 West Magnolia.
A tri-brotherhood event at Landa Park New Braunfels gathers First English Lutheran Austin St Luke's and Faith Ey congregations for a service at 4 p m with Dr. Lewis P Speaker and Conrad E Broden. A youth rally follows with a 5 30 p m picnic. Elections for officers and synod delegates are planned.
A group gathered at Rev. Eric Hawkins's home for prayer and planning to form Ascension Evangelical Lutheran church in San Antonio as part of the Evangelical Augustana Synod Mission. Temporary officers were elected, worship and Sunday school to combine, with a congregational meeting on September 2 to finalize charter membership and organization. Dedication of church property at 1000 Donaldson Avenue is set for October 20.
In Philadelphia on September 14 the House of Bishops defeated 66 to 44 a proposal to liberalize Canon 17, the church marriage law. The plan would have allowed remarriage after a divorce if the bishop deemed the previous union not true. A special committee led by Bishop Scarlett was appointed to draft a revised report overnight.
Carl Biebers has been appointed local chairman of the Texas Raternal Congress meeting to be held at the Plaza Hotel in November. Announcement came from Mrs. Ora Baldwin of Fort Worth, state president, and Mrs. Eva Huskey, Greenville, who visited San Antonio to plan the congress. Guest speakers include Walter Below of Fulton, national president Beauford Jester, and George Butler, state insurance commissioner.
A broad coalition of churches, businesses, and individuals funds a city wide program supporting religious instruction and community outreach. The list includes Garza Shop Store, Shilo's Delicatessen, San Antonio Trunk Company, Kn ow lton Creamary, Grayson Shops Inc, Santa Rosa Hospital, Powell Motor Company, and Interstate Theatres among others aiding the initiative.
Fall revival begins Sunday at the Hulsache Avenue Baptist church 1339 West Hulsache with Rev J T Grantham pastor of Corinth Baptist Abilene Texas as guest evangelist. Meeting is a cooperative effort with other city Baptists. Sunday morning Grantham will speak on The Greatest Event of Human History and in the evening What Would Happen If Jesus Came Back Tonight. Public invited to attend starting 7 45 p m Sunday and continuing until further notice.
A collage of local church notices lists Foursquare Gospel at 1410 South St Mars Mlwoud Jensen pastor Sunday services at 17 a.m with topics The Call to Separation and The Paria Peace Conference God’s Union to Man’s Distress Weekday services and weekday studies at various street locations Also listed are Latter Day Saints Church at Jeans Christ of Latter Day Saints San Antonio Branch Texas Mission 435 Bathoy Avenue and other congregations including Presbyterian First Presbyterian at Main and Fourth Streets Unitarian First Unitarian of 8 S A and Stewart Title Guaranty Co. as part of the municipal listings amid a mix of church hours and sermon topics.
A fragmented list of Lutheran church services, sermons and events across multiple parishes including Grace Lutheran on Church Avenue and Patt Street, St. John’s Lutheran, and Northeast Lutheran, with varied sermon topics such as Stewardship and Through Vision and Service Winning Others to Christ, plus Bible study, Sunday School, and evening services.
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